25 Transporting expatriates who don’t have legal Iqama (resident permit), expatriates with an expired visa or without IDs within Kingdom regions, including their transport to the Holy shrine of Hajj and Umrah, by means of transport.

• For the first instance, the carrier fine is 10,000 S.R. and one-month imprisonment. Second instance fine is 20,000 S.R. and three months imprisonment. Third instance fine is 30,000 S.R. and six months imprisonment.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.
• Means of land transport shall be confiscated in case of repeating violation, whether such means were owned by the carrier, the accessory or the colluding party.
• No confiscation may by effected unless by a judicial judgment.
• Publish the violator’s penalty in local press with the judgment thereon according to the censure instructions.
• If the carrier is an expatriate resident, his Iqama shall be terminated and he shall be deported to his country after the application of the penalty taken against him.

26 Non-submission (by captains of sail vessel, aircraft pilots and drivers of cars and other means of transport) of the passengers manifest of no passports or equivalent documents and if they recognized that such passengers held no suchdocuments or if they didn’t prevent the above passengers from landing in the Kingdom or from disembarking on its territorial waters or if they allow such passengers to disembark , even though, they were in possession of travel document in ports, airports and points of entry other than the official ones as set out in article three of the Residence Regulations with the exception of the compulsory reasons.

• For the first instance, the violator fine is 5,000 S.R.. Second instance fine is 5,000 S.R. or one-month imprisonment or both. Third instance fine is 5,000 S.R. and five months imprisonment.

27 Colluding and participating in expatriates’ entry into the Kingdom’s land or territorial waters or assisting them to departure it with the objective of smuggling them out.

• For the first instance, the violator fine is 5,000 S.R. or five months imprisonment or both.
• Second instance fine is 5,000 S.R. and one-year imprisonment in addition of notifying the Board of Grievances in order to confiscate the means of land transport used in smuggling if they were owned by the smuggler, participator or colluder.
• Third instance fine is 5,000 S.R. and two years imprisonment in addition to notifying the Board of Grievances in order to confiscate the means of land transport used in smuggling in accordance with the above.

28. Expatriate working for an employer other than the one recruited him and whose name is noted down in his work permit, prior to his release by the latter and the approval of the concerned authority on the services transfer.

• The employee shall be deported from the country at his employer expenses and deprived of the right to return to the Kingdom before the lapse of two years from his deportation date.
• Provide a copy of the worker’s travel documents to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to prevent him from coming back during the above-mentioned ban period.

29 Submission of false notification regarding a runaway expatriates from their sponsors.

• Violator’s fine is 5,000 S.R. in addition to submitting a written notification to the authority which issued his license in order to study the establishment’s status.

30 Harbouring a runaway expatriate from the employer who recruited him.

• The runaway expatriate fine is 2,000 S.R. or two weeks imprisonment with the termination of his Iqama.
• The citizen violator fine is 2,000 S.R. or two weeks imprisonment for the first instance. Second instance fine is 3,000 S.R. or six weeks imprisonment.
• The runaway expatriate procedures shall be finalised and he shall be deported at the expense of the party harboured him.

31 Runaway resident who was captured by the security authorities or by his employer.

• The runaway resident shall be arrested until the finalisation of his deportation procedures.
• The runaway resident shall be deported at the expense of the party that harboured or employed him. If he was captured working for his own account, he shall be deported at his own expense. The employer shall not be obliged to deport him if the period of the notice exceeded three months. He shall then be deported at the expense of the state by written permission from the General Director of Passports.

32 Non-reporting to the Passports Department of the disengagement of any expatriate labourer or his absence from work for two days without stating any reasons.

• In the first instance, the fine is 1,000 S.R.

• For the second instance, the fine is 2,000 S.R.
• For the third instance, the fine is 3,000 S.R.
• If the labour was captured working for a third party or for his own account and it was alleged that he run away, the employer status shall be reviewed to find out his other labours situation and their locations.

33- Employment of an expatriate who has no work license by any company, commercial house, contractor or employer.

• The employer fine is 1,000 S.R.

• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.

34 Transporting individuals who aren’t in possession of pilgrimage licenses to Makkah during the period specified by the respective authority

• If the carrier was an establishment, it shall be fined 2,000 S.R. at the first instance, 5,000 S.R. in the second and 10,000 S.R. at the third. If the carrier was a citizen or resident working for his own account, they shall receive the same penalty.

• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.

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